Fence and other post.



PATENTED JULY 10, 1906.

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E. M. BUNGE. FENCE AND OTHER POST. APPLICATION FILED Ayn. so, 1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

FENCEANDOTHERPOST.

Patented July-10,1906.

Application filed April 30, 1906- Serial No. 314,567.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that l, EARL M. BUNoE, a citi-' graph, te ephone, trolley, and the like,.said

post preferably having a base of cement concrete and made of steel-plate and which shall ,be cheap in first cost, light in weight, easy to manufacture, and which shall have the parts comprising the same so proportioned and relatively disposed that the greatest strength will be secured with a minimum of metal.

With this end in view my invention con sists in certain novelt1es of construction and I combinations of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

he accompanying drawings illustrate two examples of the physical embodiment of the invention constructed according to the best modes I have so far devised for the practical application of the principle.

- Figure 1 shows a blank of rolled-steel plate cut to the desired outline and ready to be fashioned. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the plate shown in Fig. i pressed to shape. Fig. 3 is a front view in elevation of the post, also showing the base of cement concrete. Fig. 4 is an end plan view of the top of the post, enlarged. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the post,

' enlarged. F ig. 6 is a section of Fig. 5 on the line w. Fig. 7 shows the post es ecially -adapted for supporting the wires 0 a teleof Fig. 7011 line 8 8.

graoh or telephone. Fig. 8 is a cross-section In manufacturing plate is out to the shape substantially as shown in Fig. 1 one end being wider than the other. It, is next bent along the dotted lines a a reform flanges A A and a web B. The

flsmging may be accomplished b y the use of.

dies or otherwise. The web ta ers from C to D, and each flange tapers from to F. This disposition of the metal,that is, the web flanges at the bottom being wider than at the topsecures the greatest strength with a minimum of metal. At the lower end of the post the metal of the web is cut through upon the three connected lines G, H, and I and the severed portions bent on the line K, so as to be at right angles to the web and form the post a piece of steel aflap L. Several of'these flaps may be pro- Vided. The drawingsshow two in igs, 1., 2, and 3 and four in Fig. 7. l

The lower end of the post for about one foot or more, as maybe necessary, is then embedded in a base of cement concrete, the flaps serving to anchor the metallic ortion firmly within the concrete. When t e post is to sup ort, the wires of a fence, holes may be punc ed in the flanges or web,'or both, through which may be assed wire loops for securing the wires of t e fence to the post. However, a preferable means for securing the Wires in position and sup orting them consists in V-shaped prongs struck from the web or flan es of the'post. 'Figs. 5 and 6 show one o theseprongs in top lan \view and in vertical section. The meta is cut on two divergent lines from a commonlpoint and then struck or ressed outwardly from the lane of the web, and in cross-section at its owerportion the prong is preferably concavoconvex, so as to stiffen the same and prevent it from breaking when successively bent. To fasten the wire of the fence, it is laced between the web and the prong and t e point of the latter bent inwardly toward the web and over the wire.

The 0st may be additionally stiffened and strengt ened by iron rods N, inserted in holes made in the flanges thereof and the ends upset, as shown in Fig. 8. Whenthe post is of suitable length and size for a telegraph, telehone, or trolley post or pole, these rods will e so spaced as to adapt them for use by a erson in ascending the said post or pole.

The metal of the complete post or pole where exposed may be painted with any desired com osition, such as liquid cement, or galvanize or otherwise protected from oxiation.

From the fore oing description, taken in connection with t e drawings, it becomes ob- -vious that I have produced a cheap, light,

and durable post for su porting the wires of a fence, not more cost y than a cedar post and much more durable, and likewise when made of greater length and with wider web and flanges a pole es ecially adapted for supporting the Wires o a telegrap telephone, or trol ey'.

What I claim is 1. A post or pole comprising a metallic portion consisting of pressed steel having a tapered web, tapering flan es located at right angles to the plane oft e Web so as to form a channel-shaped structure, and flaps or rojections struck from the metal at the ower end; and a base of concrete within which the lower end of the metallic portion is 5 anchored by means of the said flaps or projections.

2. A ost or pole comprising a concrete base an a pressed-steel portion with one end embedded in the concrete; said pressed-steel 1o )ortion having a Web and flanges tapering 15 channel-shaped structure.

3. 0st or pole comprising a concrete base an a flanged metallic 1portion channel-- shaped in cross-section and aving a ta ered web and ta ering flanges with one en embedded in the base; said metallic portion being provided with metallic rods, as N, passed through holes in the flan e's, substantially as and'for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EARL M. BUNCE. 

